Unai Emery

[starmandb]

wengers record against lesser teams was ridiculously good. it was always the top 4 he struggled against

From last season alone ...............

Newcastle - 2-1

Leicester - 3 - 1

Brighton Hove Albion - 2 -1

Spurs 1-0

Swansea City - 3-1

Bournemouth 2-1

Nottingham Forrest 4-2

West Brom 1-1

West Ham 0-0

Southampton 1-1

Watford 2-1

Stoke 1-0

Yeah blinding results.

If Emery had those results in a season "some" of you would by your reactions to a win, would be calling for his head.
Before you say "Well Wenger USED to have better results" when's the last time an Arsenal team went 21 games unbeaten?

Please don't use the " we have a better squad" excuse, firstly our squad is currently decimated, second the only reason we have a better squad now is because that git is no longer choosing which players to buy.

How we're 21 games unbeaten in Emery's debut season and a lot of us are having to defend him already is quite frankly fkin retarded.

November 2007 we had gone 28 games unbeaten

[starmandb]

Last season was almost pointless, even then we had the second best home record behind Man City iirc

Tell that to the season ticket holders and fans who travelled the world supporting this club, spending their hard earned money when they have families they could of spent that money on instead if they knew that was the case.

No Arsenal season is pointless, especially not to massage the ego of an ageing millionaire who always said he'd leave if he was dragging us down, Alex Fergusson went out a legend and a man with his head held high, Wenger left a tyrant that had to be forced out.

Well said sir

[Fran Solo]

someone called xhaka a playmaker!!!

i just laughed my cottage cheese thru my fecking nose!!! jajajajajaja

in the land of the blind, the one eyed....

It's a fact really. Most of our passes into the final third were made by him. And that's one thing he is actually good at.

[LMAO]

Love having a tactician as coach. We can win playing multiple styles.

[Pudpop]

someone called xhaka a playmaker!!!

i just laughed my cottage cheese thru my fecking nose!!! jajajajajaja

in the land of the blind, the one eyed....

It's a fact really. Most of our passes into the final third were made by him. And that's one thing he is actually good at.

It's the opposite of a fact. Out of our 3 main CMs this season he has had the least effective passes in terms of shot creation. Of his passes indirectly leading to shots, the expected goals of those shots add up to only 0.44 xG per game, while Torreira's add up to 0.49 and Guendouzi to 0.76 (which makes Guendouzi the 4th highest in the league (min 400mins) and the only non-Man City player in the top 10).

Of course, Xhaka's 0.44 isn't bad by any means. It's a very respectable stat but by no means can anyone claim that most of our forward play goes through him.

[Power n Glory]

wengers record against lesser teams was ridiculously good. it was always the top 4 he struggled against

From last season alone ...............

Newcastle - 2-1

Leicester - 3 - 1

Brighton Hove Albion - 2 -1

Spurs 1-0

Swansea City - 3-1

Bournemouth 2-1

Nottingham Forrest 4-2

West Brom 1-1

West Ham 0-0

Southampton 1-1

Watford 2-1

Stoke 1-0

Yeah blinding results.

If Emery had those results in a season "some" of you would by your reactions to a win, would be calling for his head.
Before you say "Well Wenger USED to have better results" when's the last time an Arsenal team went 21 games unbeaten?

Please don't use the " we have a better squad" excuse, firstly our squad is currently decimated, second the only reason we have a better squad now is because that git is no longer choosing which players to buy.

How we're 21 games unbeaten in Emery's debut season and a lot of us are having to defend him already is quite frankly fkin retarded.

November 2007 we had gone 28 games unbeaten

Over 10 years ago....

[Pudpop]

wengers record against lesser teams was ridiculously good. it was always the top 4 he struggled against

From last season alone ...............

Newcastle - 2-1

Leicester - 3 - 1

Brighton Hove Albion - 2 -1

Spurs 1-0

Swansea City - 3-1

Bournemouth 2-1

Nottingham Forrest 4-2

West Brom 1-1

West Ham 0-0

Southampton 1-1

Watford 2-1

Stoke 1-0

Yeah blinding results.

If Emery had those results in a season "some" of you would by your reactions to a win, would be calling for his head.
Before you say "Well Wenger USED to have better results" when's the last time an Arsenal team went 21 games unbeaten?

Please don't use the " we have a better squad" excuse, firstly our squad is currently decimated, second the only reason we have a better squad now is because that git is no longer choosing which players to buy.

How we're 21 games unbeaten in Emery's debut season and a lot of us are having to defend him already is quite frankly fkin retarded.

November 2007 we had gone 28 games unbeaten

Over 10 years ago....

Starman was just answering DG's question mate

[Fran Solo]

someone called xhaka a playmaker!!!

i just laughed my cottage cheese thru my fecking nose!!! jajajajajaja

in the land of the blind, the one eyed....

It's a fact really. Most of our passes into the final third were made by him. And that's one thing he is actually good at.

It's the opposite of a fact. Out of our 3 main CMs this season he has had the least effective passes in terms of shot creation. Of his passes indirectly leading to shots, the expected goals of those shots add up to only 0.44 xG per game, while Torreira's add up to 0.49 and Guendouzi to 0.76 (which makes Guendouzi the 4th highest in the league (min 400mins) and the only non-Man City player in the top 10).

Of course, Xhaka's 0.44 isn't bad by any means. It's a very respectable stat but by no means can anyone claim that most of our forward play goes through him.

Some said his final third entry of 11 per match is one of the best in Europe. It did not say anything about the effectiveness of those passes though.

[Power n Glory]

wengers record against lesser teams was ridiculously good. it was always the top 4 he struggled against

From last season alone ...............

Newcastle - 2-1

Leicester - 3 - 1

Brighton Hove Albion - 2 -1

Spurs 1-0

Swansea City - 3-1

Bournemouth 2-1

Nottingham Forrest 4-2

West Brom 1-1

West Ham 0-0

Southampton 1-1

Watford 2-1

Stoke 1-0

Yeah blinding results.

If Emery had those results in a season "some" of you would by your reactions to a win, would be calling for his head.
Before you say "Well Wenger USED to have better results" when's the last time an Arsenal team went 21 games unbeaten?

Please don't use the " we have a better squad" excuse, firstly our squad is currently decimated, second the only reason we have a better squad now is because that git is no longer choosing which players to buy.

How we're 21 games unbeaten in Emery's debut season and a lot of us are having to defend him already is quite frankly fkin retarded.

November 2007 we had gone 28 games unbeaten

Over 10 years ago....

Starman was just answering DG's question mate

Of course. Just highlighing how long ago that was in case anyone missed it.

[Santi]

Just found the comparison on another side maybe some here find it interesting (like I did).

After match day 15 this season
W9D4L2, 5th place, 34:20 +14goals, 31pts

Last season
W9D1L5, 5th place, 29:19 +10goals, 28pts

Surprise level 0

The stats from some guy the other day showing our 'massive improvement' from 4th to 1st in a few select stats showed that we we hardly any better than under Wenger. It was simply our away form that screwed us last year, at home we were unreal for the most part.

The only significant change is the aura around the club, not sure if this is down to Emery or anyone post-wenger could've turned this around.

[Power n Glory]

Just found the comparison on another side maybe some here find it interesting (like I did).

After match day 15 this season
W9D4L2, 5th place, 34:20 +14goals, 31pts

Last season
W9D1L5, 5th place, 29:19 +10goals, 28pts

Surprise level 0

The stats from some guy the other day showing our 'massive improvement' from 4th to 1st in a few select stats showed that we we hardly any better than under Wenger. It was simply our away form that screwed us last year, at home we were unreal for the most part.

The only significant change is the aura around the club, not sure if this is down to Emery or anyone post-wenger could've turned this around.

Context. This time last season we had lost to Stoke, Liverpool, Watford, Man City and Utd.

Liverpool battered us 4-0.

We went on to lose against Bournemouth, Swansea, Brighton, Spurs, both Manchester clubs, Newcastle and Leicester.

Can't just look at the stats on paper. We're more difficult to beat and not getting turned over top clubs. That's a big difference compared to last season.

[theHotHead]

I feared that our 6/7 game run against nobodies would get found out against better teams, but we managed to draw against Liverpool in q game we should have won, we dominated Spurs on the way to victory and we should've beaten Man U too!!

Its fair to say Emery is on to something here.

[Zenith]

Sky Sports

Arsenal boss Unai Emery may seek defender in transfer window

Arsenal head coach Unai Emery admits he may be forced to add a central defender to his January shopping list.

The Gunners are without a host of defenders and look like heading to Southampton on Sunday with only one fit centre-back, in the shape of the recently returned Laurent Koscielny.

The club captain has been missing since May with an Achilles injury, although Emery says the 33-year-old is due to start Thursday's Europa League match at home to Qarabag.

If Koscielny comes through that, he is likely to be in the line-up at St Mary's, with Konstantinos Mavropanos and Rob Holding injured, Shkodran Mustafi struggling with a hamstring problem, and Sokratis Papastathopoulos suspended.

Chelsea's Gary Cahill and Eric Bailly of Manchester United have recently been linked with a move to the Emirates and Emery said:

"I think if we can take one player to help us at centre-back, I think it's a good option.

"The transfer (window) is not easy. Koscielny is coming back and for the team it's very important he is coming back.

"Then we are going to wait and see how Mavropanos is improving with his injuries, because he is also a centre-back who can help us.

"Another option we can play with two, with three, and (full-backs) Nacho Monreal and (Stephan) Lichtsteiner can play in this position.

"I prefer to use, if we can, a specialist centre-back."

[DiamondGooner]

Seems like he's going to persist with the 5 at the back formation.

I wonder what made him go that route? we've done just as well playing 4-2-3-1 etc.

[LMAO]

Makes sense. Right now, Sokratis is our only healthy natural CB, with Mustafi coming back soon. Good on Emery for being proactive instead of trying to deputize FBs in the middle for an extended period.